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Feb-14-04
 | | Benzol: What happened to Tarrasch in this game, he's unrecognisable. |
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| Apr-19-05 | | valenti: <Benzol> 12. ♘e2 seems a laborious development but I don't feel competent to comment on anything else. |
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| Apr-19-05 | | RookFile: Well, 12. Ne2 isn't that bad, check
out Spassky - Fischer 1972, game 1,
Spassky played an analagous move.
I don't like 18. Nd4 from Tarrasch,
preferring 18. Qd1 instead. |
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Apr-20-05
| | Benzol: 17.♕a1 is the move I don't like. I'd prefer 17.♕d2 followed by 18.♖c1. |
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| Apr-20-05 | | ughaibu: According to Abrahams, Tarrasch had attempted to veto Yates' participation in this tournament, I dont remember why Abrahams brought this up. |
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| Apr-20-05 | | RookFile: What do you play after 17. Qd2 Bb4 |
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Apr-20-05
| | Benzol: 18.♕e2 |
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| Apr-20-05 | | RookFile: Well, certainly 18. Qe2 is a better
position than the one Tarrasch got.
Maybe black can equalize with 18...Bc3. |
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Apr-20-05
| | Benzol: 18...♗c3 19.♗xc3 ♘xc3 20.♕c2 threatens the knight and the h7 pawn.
18...♖c8 looks OK for Black. |
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| Apr-20-05 | | RookFile: 18.... Bc3 19. Bxc3 Nxc3 20. Qc2
with a double attack. Good point.
However, it's murky: 20... Rc8
21. Bxh7+ Kh8. Now black threatens
to win a piece with 22... Bxf3 23. gxf3 g6, as 24. Bxg6 fxg6 25. Qxg6?
loses the queen to 25.... Rg8.
So, you play 22. Bd3, and black plays
22... Bxf3 23. gxf3 Qg5+ 24. Kh1 Qh5
Now white has the task of defending
his f3 pawn. And ironically, the half
open h file could hurt white if black
can play ... g6 and Kg7. |
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Apr-20-05
| | Benzol: <Rookfile> Like your analysis. It seems that the h7 pawn is taboo. Maybe White should just try to consolidate with 20.♕d2 and 21.♖c1. |
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| Jun-16-05 | | sfm: <ughaibu: According to Abrahams, Tarrasch had attempted to veto Yates' participation in this tournament...>
Yes, the good Dr. argued that Yates was far from strong enough for the tournament. He also finished last, having won only one game. This one, against Tarrasch, of all! Well played also, what a crude wake-up call 19.-,♘xe3 must have been. |
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| Jun-16-05 | | aw1988: I find it somewhat amusing when someone is shocked at one player's horrible moves and then the rest of us have extreme difficulty figuring out better ones. :P |
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| Sep-26-05 | | Rama: With 28 ... Qd5+, black wins back his piece and gets a won game. The key move to me was 15 ... Bd6. The position is very nearly symmetrical which usually means few attacking chances. I expected to see 18 ... Rc8 with exchanges on the file. Instead Yates uncorks 18 ... f5. Why not f5 in the first place, on move 17? What I see is, there is no future for the black Q on the K-side while the white Knight controls h4 and g5. When the Knight goes back to d4 on move 18, suddenly the sac becomes feasible. Tarrasch missed it with 19 Rc1 and there followed the brilliant 19 ... Nxe3! It looks like Tarrasch, too, was looking for a rook exchange and kind of fell asleep, or was lulled into complacency. The move 18 ... f5 should have set off alarm bells; it is not a normal move. |
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| Sep-18-06 | | Resignation Trap: According to Thomas F Lawrence this game was "a credit to British Chess." It gave particular satisfaction at the time, as Dr. Tarrasch had adversely criticised the inclusion of the youthful Yates in the Hamburg tournament. |
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| Jan-26-09 | | WhiteRook48: Tarrasch got Tharrasched |
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May-14-11
 | | OhioChessFan: I ran it through Fritz and he says 19...Rc1 is the blunder. Rd1 or Nf3 is much better. Ashamed to say it took me a while to figure out why. 22..f4 is much better for Black. 23. Rc2 holds on a little longer for White. |
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Nov-25-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Puzzled by the pun?
This was Yates' first important international tournament. Tarrasch had objected to his inclusion, feeling he wasn't strong enough for the event. Objectively, Tarrasch was probably right. Yates finished dead last by 2.5 points and won only one game. This one. |
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| Nov-25-11 | | sevenseaman: Looks like Yates showed enough pride to put Tarrasch's prejudice in perspective. Good enough to beat the strongest player. Yates has indeed scalped some marquee names. |
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Nov-25-11
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Well, <sevenseaman>, Yates was one of those erratic ones; his opponents always had to cross their fingers and hope he would not have one of his "best-player-on-the-planet-for-the-next-six-hours-
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| Nov-25-11 | | PaulLovric: <Benzol> Tarrasch seems behind very early and gets constantly smashed by Yates in every move, like a boss |
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Nov-25-11
 | | piltdown man: He was a great player on his day, Mr Yates. But very inconsistent. |
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Nov-25-11
 | | FSR: 17.Qa1 looks like a Reti-type move. It didn't work out too well, although White would still have been OK if he'd played something stronger on move 19. |
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| Nov-25-11 | | Llawdogg: Wow! Beautiful knight sacrifice! |
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Nov-25-11
 | | Penguincw: Great idea to sac the ♘. Looks like white is going to lose a piece. The bishop is attacked 3 times and only defended twice. If 34.♔c3 then 34...♗xd4+ 35.♔b4 ♗xa1 36.♖xe4 g5 is winning. 
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